Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor third in another race for the governorship. However, Bellotti would not quit campaigning. It was his life. He talked to local clubs and groups, he shook more hands and remembered people's names. His comeback has been impressive; a recent poll ranked him as the second most popular Democrat in the state, following Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54. Now, the PCM scandals and what Weld has made of it threaten to wipe away his monumental effort to ressurrect himself...
...year-old Bell, one-time New Jersey campaign director for Ronald Reagan, rode the crest of the Proposition 13 wave to a stunning upset over veteran incumbent and popular liberal Clifford Case in une's Republican primary. Since that time, the polls have had the widely recognized liberal Democrat Bradley way ahead...
...early activist in the solar energy and ecology movements, Einhorn now specializes in getting hold of an unknown cause and making it popular. "When public structures become despicable, it is the duty of citizens to disrupt them," he said...
...really like Peter...you know, it's like, I like people like Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell--but Joni and Hendrix have a lot in common, they really do. They both go up there and do it their own way, do their own thing, you know? Really unique," one locally popular folksinger explained...
...structures can be penetrated by personal links and informal approaches--in academic applications particularly. You will not be required to fill out things in sextuplicate. You will find chemistry tutors who write musicals on the side, and the head of an Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which...